Emergency Medicine Digest

1. Prolonged QTc in diabetic ketoacidosis in childrenQTc was shown to be prolonged in up to 47% of diabetic ketoacidosis in children and tend to resolves when the ketosis clears (only 13% still with prolonged QTc after recovery).Implication: Probably monitoring of QT interval in diabetic ketoacidosis in children can be used as a measure of the disease progression?Reference:Kuppermann N et al.